Clashes erupt between youths and Israeli soldiers at Qalandia checkpoint

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Dozens of youths took part in the march, organized on the occasion of the 37th anniversary of Land Day. They marched from Qalandia refugee camp towards the military checkpoint.The confrontations erupted when the Israeli troops started firing tear gas and stun grenades at the demonstrators who responded by throwing stones at the soldiers.Eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli soldiers have also fired stun grenades towards journalists and warned them against approaching the checkpoint.Meanwhile; the Jerusalem Foundation for Development have launched, since Saturday morning hours, works of cleaning and planting hundreds of olive seedlings in different parts of Jerusalem, as part of the Land Day events.Hundreds of Jerusalemites and Palestinians from the 1948-occupied territory participated in the event.When they started their work in lands in the Mount Tur in front of Al-Aqsa Mosque, large Israeli forces arrived and tried to stop them. The forces arrested three Jerusalemites.Lawyer Khaled Zabarqa, director of the Jerusalem Foundation for Development, condemned the occupation procedure and said it proves the "tyranny and injustice" of the Israeli occupation.End item/ 149